As a freshman last season, Lincoln-Way East’s Kate Guderjan had a chance to run with the varsity team late in the year. She worked hard all offseason to prepare for her first full-time varsity season this fall.

“I did a half-marathon over the summer and trained leading up to that,” she said. “Last summer, I only ran maybe once. It’s a big difference, because now I could actually run without stopping and not being dead.”